Paisley and Weezer down at the shore

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PITTSBURGH - The city's North Shore will be the place to be Memorial Day weekend for country music and alt-rock fans.

Details were announced Monday for the "Steelers Country Music Festival" May 27 and 28 headlined by Country Music Association entertainer of the year Brad Paisley.

Paisley will perform May 28 at Heinz Field, kicking off his "H20 II Wetter and Wilder" tour that includes Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton and Jerrod Niemann. A second stage will feature emerging artists Brent Anderson, Edens Edge and Sunny Sweeney.

The show also will feature a Water World Plaza, with Art Rooney Avenue offering a fishing simulator, dunking booth, slip-n-slide and other water games, along with summer-oriented food booths and access to the newly refurbished Steelers Experience.

Water World Plaza will open May 27 in time for an outdoor concert at the adjacent Stage AE starring alt-country-folk band the Avett Brothers. Tickets cost $38 and are on sale now.

Those events are billed as part of a summer kickoff festival that also includes a May 29 Stage AE outdoor concert by alternative rockers Weezer. Tickets also are on sale now for $43.

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